Re: [orca-list] When there is selected text and the cursor is moved with the arrows, the orca does not read the text to which the cursor was moved

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

Selection cancelled looks OK to me.

Milton

Op 06-12-2021 om 17:10 schreef Joanmarie Diggs:
> Hey Jeffery, all.
>
> Understood regarding the need to be clear about what happened (selected
> text is no longer selected). While I'm not jazzed by my "selection
> removed," I'm not jazzed by your list of alternatives. Clear wording is
> hard. :) Let's see what others chime in with.
>
> Regarding pressing home to unselect to the start of the line, but leave
> the rest of the stuff selected, that behavior should hopefully be
> unchanged for two reasons:
>
> 1. This logic only kicks in when there is no longer any selected text.
> In your example, there still would be selected text.
>
> 2. This logic only kicks in when the unselection happened due to
> something other than Shift+Caret Nav commands. To unselect just to the
> start of the current line, you would have to press Shift+Home; not just
> Home.
>
> Hope this makes sense. And if not, please pull master and try it in
> Gedit and let me know what you find.
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
>
> On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 14:26 +0000, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list
> wrote:
> > Part of me says selection removed sounds like a synonym forselection
> > deleted. Perhaps something like selection cancelled, unselected all,
> > everything unselected, or selectionn unhighlighted or permutations
> > thereof would be more intuitive to new users and less likely to cause
> > panic that they accidentally deleted a significant portion of their
> > document.
> >
> > I do agree that reading what was unselected is needlessly wordy when
> > cancelling a selection altogether, but I also think the unselected
> > text probably should be read when unselecting part of a
> > selection(e.g.
> > someone holds shift and presses down arrow several times to highlight
> > several lines, but gets part of the line beyond where they wanted to
> > stop, so press home to unselect to the start of that last line,
> > hearing what was unselected sounds useful to avoid unselecting too
> > much, such if the point you want to end the selection is a sentence
> > break in that last line rather than a line break).
> >
> > Just my two bits.
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